On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, PHILIPPE TUSLER wrote:
=%O>PHILIPPE,
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=%O The little clips are called 'circlips'. There are circlip pliers that have
=%O prongs on them that fit in the pin holes of the circlip to open it.
Not, as Philippe said, these puppies. These are "circlips on steroids".
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=%O You obviously have never encountered the clips used to hold the wheel
=%Ocylinders onto the backing plate of an early MG. These resemble 'circlips'
=%Othe way lever-arm Armstrong shock absorbers resemble Konis.
You said it Phillippe. I spent about 15 minutes per circlip to get the
damn things on when I replaced my brake cylinders. As I said before, I got
two of the clips prongs in, then pried the third on with a BFS.
=%OI can't even begin to make ASCII art to describe them. Suffice it to
=%Osay that they make remounting the wheel cylinders purgatory.
=%O
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=%O*Philippe Tusler - Mission Viejo, CA | "MILOU" '57 MGA Roadster *
=%O* | "TINTIN" '66 MG/MGB-GT *
=%O*InterNet: Philippe.Tusler@Unisys.Com | N/A '88 ISUZU Trooper*
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"Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance"
John J. Peloquin
Molecular Biology &
Biochemistry
3205 BioSciences II
UC IRVINE
Irvine, CA 92697-3900
jpeloqui@uci.edu
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